After completing her psychiatric training at Loyola University in Chicago in 1998, Dr. Anand cared for persons with a wide spectrum of mental health issues through working in both public governmental and private sector. Through that she gained varied experience in treatment of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, neuro-developmental disorders, severe and enduring mental illnesses including Bipolar Affective Disorder, Depression, Schizophrenia and consultation liaison psychiatry.

Dr. Anand’s special areas of interest are accurate mental health diagnosis and treatment, mental health disorders in women such as perinatal depression, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and perimenopause-related depression, depression, anxiety and eating disorders in women, ADHD and co-morbities in adults and children, mental health issues in elderly, children and developmentally challenged, addiction disorders and eating disorders in different cultures and ethnicities.

Dr. Anand has extensive experience in Dual diagnosis of Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness. In 2000 she was the medical director for department of developmental services, helping the State of California, Department of Developmental Disabilities to set up a 50 bed transitional facility to facilitate the stepping down of the abandoned, long term institutionalized, secluded, developmentally disabled with mental illness population to the transitional facility and then back into the community.  She succeeded and worked in this capacity for 4 years. She then served as the Medical Director in the United States for Sacramento County and Solano County Behavioral Health.  Dr. Anand was part of the executive leadership team leading and co-leading various subcommittees including mental health subcommittee, quality management, policy development subcommittee.

During the course of her career Dr. Anand has held various leadership position in USA in the public sector as well working with various state agencies including State of California Department of Developmental Services, California State Department of Mental Health and State of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. She has over 15 years of State of California experience, was promoted to a senior psychiatrist and then Chief of Psychiatry.   She had been actively providing guidance to the institutional leadership in the various departments was involved in program planning and development, providing guidelines, quality management and evaluation of various mental health programs, developing policies, procedures, protocols, providing guidelines while directing, guiding and supervising psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, nurses and other mental health staff she was responsible for.

More recently, Dr. Anand has helped the State of California, Department of Correction in activation of California Health Care Facility, Stockton, a brand new billion dollar, USA’s biggest health care facility to house the state’s sickest inmates,. She served in the leadership capacity for 3 years both as a senior and then as a Chief of Psychiatry prior to moving to UAE in 2017.   In 2017 she joined Al Zahra hospital, Sharjah, a 36 year old private hospital that did not have mental health/psychiatry service to set up and activate psychiatry clinical services (both outpatient and consultation liason).

Dr. Anand believes in empowering the patients, community and primary care physicians and has done various teaching and lecturing on different psychiatric and psychological topics including ADHD in adults, Depression, Anxiety and mood disorders in women during different stages of Life, Depression in Children,  ADHD in children, Psychopharmacology and psychotropic medications, Pre Menstrual Dysphoric disorder, Societal Stigma of Mental Health in the USA.  In UAE Dr. Anand has done teaching, presentations, education and lecturing to students, resident medical officers, nursing staff, medical colleagues other medical subspecialties during inpatient unit rounds and CME presentations at Al Zahra, Sharjah and Monthly northern emirates meetings.

She has a holistic approach to patient care, applies ethical framework and follows expected guidelines in her profession. She believes in comprehensive psychiatry assessments, appropriate diagnoses, to be able to engage and communicate with patients and effectively partner with them and other team members to co-ordinate and provide best care possible. Her advisory team is made up of many professionals who are all specialists in their chosen field, including psychologists, marriage and family therapist, pediatricians, Internists, family practitioners, radiologists and gynecologists. Together they provide an excellent quality of service. Dr. Anand is committed to establish the best practice for psychiatry and mental health.  When working with Dr. Anand, one will be able to expect an empathic, genuine, non- judgmental and honest evaluation and treatment while maintaining utmost confidentiality.  She has excellent background in psychopharmacology and believes in using medication conservatively and responsibly measuring outcomes of new modalities.

She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association, Northern California Psychiatric Society, California Psychiatric Association and American Medical Association.

Clinically, Dr. Anand prides in a Languages Spoken:
English, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, understand spoken

Arabic, communicate some in arabic.

He still holds the following positions Honorary Fellow and Senior Lecturer in The University of Warwick as well as Aston University). He has published several publications in high impact journals such as The British Journal of Psychiatry and the British Medical Journal. He has authored several chapters in several books in different areas of psychiatry.